Album.



J. c. DAWSON.

ALBUM.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.29. 191a.

Ptented July 10, 191?.

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11 swans TNT men.

JAMES C. DAWSON. OF WEBSTER GROVES. MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO DAWSON BINDER,COMPANY. OF ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

ALBUM.

Application filed January 29. 1916.

To all zr/lom it may conct'rn Be itknown that 1. JAMES C. DAWSON. acitizen of the United States. and resident of Vi'ebster Groves. countyof St. Louis. and State of Missouri. have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Albums. of which the following is aspecification. and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to cardv mounts and more particularly to thosewhich serve as holders for the preservation and display'of pictures.sample sheets and the like, and are usually bound together. forming abook or albunn While card mounts of this form have heretofore beenslotted to receive the corners of the sheets to be mounted thereon,

the practice has been to form the slots with sharp ends or angles fromwhich the tearing of the mount readily begins and the slots have beenrequired to be of considerable length to receive a sufficient; portionof the mounted sheet to insure its being held in place.

The present invention accordingly contemplates a card mount havingslot-ted openings which are so formed as not to present any sharp endsor angles from which tearing would be likely to begin and to provideanflintermediateflap for extending over the mounted sheet to insure itsbeing held in place. A further feature of the invention providesimproved means for detachably connect-ing'a plurality of card mounts endto end to permit of their being folded together between covers orextended for the simultaneous display of all or'any number of themounted sheets. The object of the invention is to provide a card mountof increased durability. improved appearance and alfording greaterconvenience in the application and removal of the mounted sheet. Figure1 is a plan view showing the open covers of an album with a card mountembodying the features. of improvement provided by the invention heldtherein as one of the pages or leaves of the album.

Fig. 2 isa detail plan view of one of the improved card mounts drawn toa. larger Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the improved device whichmay be employed for detachably connecting the card mounts end to end,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1911.

Serial No. 75.102.

Fig. l is adetail plan view showing two of the connected mounts,

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 6 is an elevation. showing the album illustrated in Fig. 1. partly.open.

In carrying outthe invention. cards. as 10, 11. are provided as mountsfor the sheets. as 12, to be preserved or displayed. The sheets, as 12.are removably held upon the cards 10 or 11 by inserting each of thecorners 13 of the sheet 12 into a slotted opening 14 in thecorresponding card.

The said slotted openings 14 are of improved form to avoid the provisionof sharp corners or ends from which tearing of the card might begin andto provide a projecting flap 15. The flap 15 facilitates the insertionof the corner '13 oi the sheet 12 into the slotted opening 11 andoverlies the sheet 12 to more securely hold the same in place. As shown.the slot-ted opening 14 is formed with rounded end portions 17. 18, astraight inner side wall 16 which is on a line with the inner margins ofthe rounded end portions 17. 18. and an outer side wall 19 which isoffset inwardly from the line of the outer margins of the rounded endportions 17. 18.

\Then a plurality of the cards. as 10. 11. are to be held between bookcovers. as 20. :21. they may he hingedly connected end to end. Aconvenient form of detachable hinged connection is obtained by providingthe adjacent ends of the cards. as 10. 11. with longitudinal slots. as23.'arranged in pairs. and by the use of the hinges generally designated24. As shown. each of the hinges 21 comprises a pair of stifl' T-shapedend sections '25. 26. connected by a flexible web 27. In use theoppositely extending sides of the T heads of the two end sections 26. ofeach hinge 24 are inserted in the slots of adjacent cards. as 10. 11. inthe manner illustrated by Figs. 4. 5 and 6. All of the cards may beconnected together end to end in this way. thereby permitting of theirbeing folded together for protection by the covers 20. 21. or extendedin a row for the simultaneous display of the sheets. as 12. mountedthereon.

I claim as my invention.-

A card mount for angular sheets having a slotted opening for receiving acorner of the sheet, said slotted opening being without convergingangles in its margin and comprising two rounded end portions and anintermediate ortion which is of less width than the width of either ofthe said end portions and has one of its side walls extending in astraight line which is tangent to the corresponding sides of both of thevsaid rounded end portions, the other side wall of the intermediateportion of the opening being inwardly-ofiset from the line of thecorresponding sides of the rounded end portions but notextending to thefirst described side wall of the said intermediate portion, forming aflap.

JAMES C. DAWSON.

